New York Times Crossword Anniversary: 75 Years Ago

ACROSS

1 Wholesaler’s unit
6 Buck whose “Dragon Seed” was published in 1942
11 Helps a criminal
16 Gut course
17 Race car driver Castroneves
18 Poet Jones (Amiri Baraka)
19 1942 Camus book
21 Clunker
22 The “ten” in “hang ten”
23 She started her diary in 1942
25 More merry
29 I love, to Catullus
30 Classic 1942 film
33 Gallery staffer
38 Matches a bet
39 __ gin fizz
41 Confessional’s locale
42 Feel punk
45 Sharp-sighted
48 Historic puzzle event of 1942
53 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor __”
54 Roads: abbr.
55 “__ Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)”
56 Arbitration body: abbr.
58 Little car from Italy
62 Corvette’s cousin
65 Classic 1942 film
69 Saddler’s tool
71 Certain ailment
72 1942 World Series champs
78 Dart along
79 Vinegar bottle
80 Military campaign of 1942
85 Douglas family facial feature
86 “Stand and Deliver” star
87 Together
88 Iberian wines
89 Part of a miserable forecast
90 Comedian Paul

DOWN

1 Understand
2 Sound from the cheering crowd
3 Simple sugar suffix
4 Methodologies
5 “__ in Paris” (Kerouac)
6 Beginning step
7 Dusk, to a poet
8 Pond plant
9 It’s nothing to Colette
10 Liza’s sis
11 Completely committed to
12 Draft __
13 First name in household humor
14 “Tiny __ Adventures”
15 Drop a long putt
20 Stable strap
24 High-voltage power line concern: abbr.
25 Metric units: abbr.
26 Charlemagne’s domain: abbr.
27 Compass dir.
28 Campers: abbr.
31 Sister of Orestes
32 Veldt attention grabber
34 “Song for __ World” (Jason Robert Brown musical)
35 Cinco de __ (Mexican holiday)
36 From here to eternity
37 His last costar was Della
40 Freud’s concerns
42 Cash dispenser, initially
43 American version of “Ltd.”
44 French city
46 D-Day craft
47 Wavy letter
48 Banking insurance letters
49 TV “friend” played by Marie Wilson
50 Stationery store unit
51 Capital of Yemen
52 Sprinkled stuff
57 Badge awarder: abbr.
58 Walter Mitty’s indulgence
59 “Melody __” (Rubinstein)
60 Knee MRI target
61 After sigma
63 John and Bonnie
64 Fess (up)
66 Equally swift
67 Invoice
68 Secular
70 Former capital of Nigeria
72 USSR, to Ivan
73 Alice’s Restaurant patron
74 Regretter
75 Nimble
76 Pause
77 “...bat time, __ bat channel”
81 Anonymous last name
82 French refusal
83 In addition to
84 Actor Christopher